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Midsummer Moon

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Praise for Laura Kinsale:
"Magic and beauty flow from Laura Kinsale''s pen."
-Romantic Times
"Readers should be enchanted."
-Publishers Weekly
"One of the best writers in the history of the romance genre."
-All About Romance
"Laura Kinsale delivers powerful, unique romance."
-Amanda Quick
"A writer who always provides a triumphant novel."
-Affaire de Coeur
An impossible inventor?
Ransom Falconer, Duke of Damerell, is sent to see if Merlin Lambourne, the famous inventor, has created a truly magnificent innovation that can be used in the war against Napoleon. What Ransom doesn''t realize is that Merlin is a woman, and not everyone wants to see her invention become a reality?
With dreams of flight?
Merlin Lambourne is a brilliant yet slightly eccentric scientist whose dream is to build a flying machine. Nothing can distract her from her goals, and Ransom offers her refuge at his estate-a safe haven to work on her invention undisturbed. But when Merlin''s dream puts them both at risk, Ransom must overcome his own fears and realize her invention may be the answer to saving both theirlives?

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Midsummer Moon

The following ISBNs are associated with this title:

ISBN - 10: 1402246897

ISBN - 13: 9781402246890

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For the fourth time, His Grace the Duke of Damerell lifted the knocker with his free hand and brought the tarnished brass crashing down on its mottled-green base. For the fourth time, the sound echoed on the other side of the oaken door, unanswered. Ransom Falconer''s mouth drew back in the faintest hint of a grimace. He and his horse appeared to be the only civilized creatures within five square miles. Had he thought otherwise, he would never have allowed himself such a show of emotion. The overgrown Tudor walls rose above him, gray stone and neglect, an affront to the values of ten generations of Falconers. Admittedly, from where he stood on the threshold Ransom could see the romantic possibilities of the place: shaped gables and tall oriel windows and dark spreading trees, but at the very thought of such sentimentality those Falconer ghosts seemed to stare in haughty disapproval at his back. Without conscious intention, his own aristocratic features hardened into that hereditary expression of disdain. Princes had been known to quail before such a look. There had been a few kings, too, and innumerable queens and duchesses and courtly ladies, all struck dumb and uneasy beneath the Falconer stare. Four centuries of power and politics had evolved and improved the expression, until by Ransom''s time it was a weapon of chilling efficiency. He himself had learned it early-at his grandfather''s elegant knee. As it was, when at last the rusty lock creaked and crashed and the door o

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Praise for Laura Kinsale:
"Magic and beauty flow from Laura Kinsale''s pen."
-Romantic Times
"Readers should be enchanted."
-Publishers Weekly
"One of the best writers in the history of the romance genre."
-All About Romance
"Laura Kinsale delivers powerful, unique romance."
-Amanda Quick
"A writer who always provides a triumphant novel."
-Affaire de Coeur
An impossible inventor?
Ransom Falconer, Duke of Damerell, is sent to see if Merlin Lambourne, the famous inventor, has created a truly magnificent innovation that can be used in the war against Napoleon. What Ransom doesn''t realize is that Merlin is a woman, and not everyone wants to see her invention become a reality?
With dreams of flight?
Merlin Lambourne is a brilliant yet slightly eccentric scientist whose dream is to build a flying machine. Nothing can distract her from her goals, and Ransom offers her refuge at his estate-a safe haven to work on her invention undisturbed. But when Merlin''s dream puts them both at risk, Ransom must overcome his own fears and realize her invention may be the answer to saving both theirlives?

About the Author

Laura Kinsale, a former geologist, is the New York Times bestselling author of Flowers from the Storm, The Prince of Midnight, and Seize the Fire. She and her husband divide their time between Santa Fe and Dallas.